specialist Super 8 - 8mm DVD Film Transfers Conversions
Great Super 8 - 8mm Frame by Frame film scanning Stop Motion Capture Telecine transfer - convert small format home movie films to DVD specialists.
hard at work scanning and editing in new Studio 2
Plaza Arcade 140 Graham St Wonthaggi 3995
8mm - Super 8
Super 8 home movie film was one of the most popular small film formats in Australia and the USA. Good old Kodachrome 40 Super 8 film was a huge seller
until the market became accustomed to using video cameras that did not weigh a ton, decreasing in size due to miniaturisation of components meant the video camera killed off the film based home movie maker, projector sales dried up and super 8 film camera makers quickly turned over manufacture to video cameras with surprising speed and soon the video camera became small enough to undercut the size and weight of the most compact super 8 film cameras.
The demise of the super 8 film seemed destined to disappear for ever,especially after smaller video tape formats became main stream. Oh, but super 8 and 8mm are far from dead and definitely not buried as you can still buy super 8 film, these days Ektachrome 64 replaces the much loved Kodachrome 40 asa film and you can buy fresh film stock since Kodak still makes Ektachrome 64 available in the super 8 cartridge and it is still in the same sized little yellow Kodak film box you can instantly recognise.
Finding Super 8 film stock to buy isn't as easy as it used to be and not available in every chemist and camera store like it once was.
These days super 8 film stock is only available from specialist resellers in Australia
and the best source in Australia is nanolab.com.au as they also provide processing - development and accessories you may need, tell Richard Avid TechDVD sent you.
Avid TechDVD has reluctantly given away film sales and processing to concentrate on frame by frame super 8 - 8mm film transfers as our frame by frame film transfer business has expnaded so fast due to the exceptional and unbeatable quality.
we had to make space decisions to increase our capacity to transfer super 8 films, 8mm films, 35mm slides and video.unfortuneately film processing is a hand done thing and takes a lot of time and room is required we have turned over our space to studio 2 with new high end equipment. computers and the latest in film transfer super 8 telecine machines the DV8Sniper Pro Super 8 - 8mm Telecine
As one of the very few true frame by frame super 8 - 8mm film scanning telecine services in Australia we
Avid Techdvd's new studio, 2 new Frame By Frame film transfer scanners, new furnishings and fittings.
Latest High technology digital workstations featuring Intel multi core CPU's, seriously high end graphics, super fast 10,000 rpm hard disk arrays, tera bytes of external SATA hard drives, internal and external hardware video compression and conversion, project storage containers and 35mm slide scanners. Avid Tech has undergone an annual upgrade of all equipment and technology, software and techniques to rival the best equipped city based studio, in fact many city studios are blown away by our equipment level and capabilities.
located in provincial Victoria fast growing regional hub town of Wonthaggi 135 km East of Melbourne the capital of Victoria Australia, the land down under for our international visitors information.
FXF Frame by Frame home movie transfer to DVD from Super 8 and 8mm films.
Superior premium film transfers / conversion to DVD and MiniDV videotape archive
start and end with frame by frame film scanning of Super 8 and 8mm telecine.
FXF is our brand of enhanced frame by frame stop motion capture, the technique
is not new and has been around for a few years with evolutions as well as some revolution of innovation with technology moving faster each year.
Avid TechDVD provides Victoria's only true frame by frame film transfers with the latest generation of 2007 which now offers the highest quality of frame scanning
ever seen.
We only offer FXF for Super 8 and 8mm format films with the use of DV8 Sniper Pro film scanning stop motion capture.
There are a couple of service providers barking that they have the best gear, truth be told that equipment is now obsolete, low tech and slow using old methods and even bending it a bit since some of the equipment isn't really true frame by frame, in fact some of the gear actually involves an aerial projection by means of a mirror and a convex lens to become a re-shoot and this method is a budget way of doing things, it is inconsistent and relies on the ability of the camera operator because the video camera is moveable the results are rarely consistent.
Light Source, is now an LED panel unlike the out dated 40 watt lamp of the slow older models, frame scanning rates are now a lot higher in the 2007 models.
There are no sprockets that can harm films and as the light source is an LED no harm can come to the films we transfer - convert to DVD for you.
